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Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania and National Institute for Biomembranes and Biosystems, Section of Catania, Via S. Sofia 89, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: bioenergetics; mitochondrial metabolism; membrane proteins; VDACs; mitochondrial porins; oxidative stress; oxidative PTMs; gene expression; neurodegeneration; yeast
Experimental Radiology, Dept. of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Interests: inflammation; alcohol; trauma; biomarkers; imaging


Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2V2, Canada
Interests: polymer science and engineering; biomaterial and cancer gene therapy
Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Medical Neuroscience Graduate Program, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Interests: diabetes; obesity; metabolism; glucose metabolism; insulin; feeding; G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR); metabolic disease; signaling; cyclic AMP (cAMP); calcium; central nervous system (CNS); intestine; glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1); glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS); enteroendocrine cell (EEC); inducible knockout
Laboratory for Clinical Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases, 4204 Golnik, Slovenia
Interests: human genetics; human genomics; transcriptomics; next-generation sequencing; allergology; in vitro allergology testing
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Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar - Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: peroxisome biogenesis; protein targeting; transient ubiquitination

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Dipartimento di Chirurgia e Specialità Medico Chirurgiche, Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
Interests: axonal hereditary neuropathy; multiple myeloma; lymphoma; mitochondria; Warburg effect; drug resistance
Faculty of Health, School of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Interests: vascular biology; microvascular endothelial cells; signaling pathways of angiogenesis; epigenetics; exercise physiology; molecular and integrative physiology; intracellular stress response (Mdm2, FoxO1, p53, etc.)

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Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterranea (IHSM-UMA-CCSIC), Malaga, Spain
Interests: plant lipids; lipid signalling; lipid transport; membrane contact sites; abiotic stress; arabidopsis; tomato
1. Institute of Neurobiology, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany
2. Children's Hospital and Institute of Pediatrics, University of Debrecen, Nagyerdei krt. 98, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Interests: comparative molecular endocrinology; immunometabolism; metabolic biochemistry; inflammation and innate immunity; macrophage biology; functional genomics of diabetes and obesity
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Department of Andrology, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
Interests: male reproduction; sperm biology; oxidative stress; sperm dna fragmentation; genetics of male infertility; biomarkers

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Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, University of Salerno, Baronissi, Italy
Interests: immunotherapy; cancer; targeted therapy; checkpoint inhibitors; skin cancer; biliary tumors; NSCLC; cancer biomarkers; mechanisms of therapy resistance in cancer
Division of Molecular Medicine, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: HPV; miRNA; HNSCC; cervical cancer; DNA viruses; biomarkers; epidemiology
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Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, 3008 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: cancer metabolism; acquired therapy resistance; drug discovery; ferroptosis and oxidative stress; automated quantitative single-cell imaging; tumoroid culture; neuroendocrine tumours
Cellular Signalling Laboratory, Department of Biomedical and NeuroMotor Sciences (DIBINEM), 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: apoptosis; necrosis; autophagy; oxidative stress; anticancer drugs; extracellular vescicles; in vitro cell cultures; ultrastructural analyses; immunohistochemistry
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Department of Cardiology, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan
Interests: somatic mosaicism; clonal hematopoiesis; inflammation; onco-cardiology; heart failure
Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, I-09042 Monserrato (Cagliari), Italy
Interests: bioactive compounds from plants' extracts (extraction, isolation and chemical characterization); polyphenols; nutraceuticals; antioxidants; health-promoting properties; food waste and by-products valorization; functional foods and dietary supplements; phytochemistry of plant secondary metabolites and botanical pesticide
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1. Department of Medical Biotechnologies and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
2. Humanitas Clinical and Research Center – IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy
Interests: immunology; tumors; macrophages
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Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, UK
Interests: Alpha synuclein; Amyloid beta; Tau; neurodegeneration; fluorescence lifetime; superresolution imaging; C. elegans
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Interests: inherited dyslipidemia; lipid lowering therapies; type 2 diabetes; coronary artery calcium score
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1. U.O.C. Genetica Medica, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, 16147 Genova, Italy
2. Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health (DINOGMI), Università degli Studi di Genova, 16132 Genova, Italy
Interests: cystic fibrosis; epithelial physiology; airway physiology; TMEM16 genes; ion channel; phospholipid scramblases; in vitro models; neurodevelopmental disorders; induced pluripotent stem cells; brain organoids; therapeutic development; high content imaging; high throughput screening
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Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Interests: inflammation; cell signalling pathways; vascular proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans in the initiation and progression of vascular damage; structure, function, immunological and biological properties of hyaluronic acid and proteoglycans in arthritis
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IRCCS Istituto Tumori Giovanni Paolo II, Bari, Italy
Interests: metastatic melanoma; angiogenesis; apoptosis; autophagy
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South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, South Africa and Laboratory of Computational Modeling of Drugs, South Ural State University, 76 Lenin prospekt, Chelyabinsk 454080, Russia
Interests: bioinformatics; computational chemistry; computer aided drug design; biochemistry; structural biology and genomics

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Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Interests: hematopoietic stem cells; notch signaling; development; irradiation; apoptosis; senescence
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Interests: T cell differentiation; infections; non-coding RNAs
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Medicines Discovery Institute, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
Interests: paraspeckles; stress granules; RNP granules; NEAT1; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; FUS; TDP-43; neurodegeneration
The Scripps Research Institute, d/b/a Calibr, a division of Scripps Research, 11119 North Torrey Pines Road, Suite 100, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Interests: small molecule; peptide and antibody drug discovery; targeting metabolic disease; oncology
Departments of Biology and Chemistry, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Interests: structure biology; E3 ubiquitin ligases; deubiquitinases
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Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Interests: cardiovascular immunotherapy; inflammation; fibrosis; metabolomics; genomics; proteomics; stem cells transdifferentiation
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